i bet if you let loose a couple of lions in there, one or two of them would discover some new escalator climbing skills real quick… maybe just play lion noises through the intercom…
Oh, I thought you were saying the lions would learn.
Fine to do for getting off the thing if it stopped while you’re on it but no, they don’t just become stairs when they’re stopped. Go look up escalator brake failures if you want to see some horrifying videos of how that can go wrong.
If it hasn’t moved in two hours, we can probably assume it’s stopped.
I was moreso saying for the sake of the next jackass that gets the bright idea of jumping an ‘out of order’ barrier, should one of them read it.
A lot of malls in Asia have signs that say not to walk on the escalators. So yeah I guess if it breaks you’re SOL if the people in front of you aren’t rule breakers.
Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
- Mitch Hedberg
Sorry for the convenience!
(R.I.P. Mitch)
Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.
I know it’s a quote, but if the brakes failed on an escalator then yes it would be unusable even as stairs, however you wouldn’t be stuck on it at that point, you’d be in a pile at the bottom.
Acshually, “escalators” are a subset of “stairs”. They would’ve known this had they paid attention during math class 🤓
I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.
Queue Mitch Hedberg…
